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Ideas@TheCentre

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3 short articles from CIS researchers emailed every Friday on the issues of the week.

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Publications

  1. Time to Dump Australia’s Anti-Dumping System

    Stephen Kirchner | 05 Jun 2013 | Issue Analysis

    This report argues that Australia should scrap its anti-dumping and countervailing system. The report examines the meaning... Read More...

  2. Relics of a Byzantine IR System: Why Awards Should Be Abolished

    Alexander Philipatos | 23 May 2013 | Issue Analysis

    Awards are uniquely Australian, and practically as old as the country itself. But in Australia’s modern, competitive economy,... Read More...

  3. Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It

    Jeremy Sammut | 30 Apr 2013 | TARGET30 Research Papers

    High growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government... Read More...

  4. TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It

    Jeremy Sammut | 30 Apr 2013 | TARGET30 Snapshots

    High growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government... Read More...

  5. After the Welfare State: Politicians Stole Your Future … You Can Get It Back

    Tom Palmer | 08 Apr 2013 | Occasional Papers

    History, economics, sociology, political science, and mathematics are the tools to understand and evaluate welfare states,... Read More...

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Opinion & Commentary

  1. Dumping on free trade

    Stephen Kirchner | 13 Jun 2013 | ON LINE Opinion

    Australia’s anti-dumping system will continue to serve the interests of a small number of Australian producers at the expense ... Read More

  2. Stamp out the anti-dumping dinosaur laws

    Stephen Kirchner | 05 Jun 2013 | Business Spectator

    Australia’s economic welfare is enhanced as a result of ‘dumping’ by foreign producers.... Read More

  3. Politics over policy in industrial relations

    Alexander Philipatos | 29 May 2013 | ON LINE Opinion

    Employers should be able to determine wages and conditions for new projects. It simply does not make sense that unions must ... Read More

  4. Awards don't deliver fair go

    Alexander Philipatos | 23 May 2013 | The Australian

    It is possible to increase labour market flexibility, create more jobs and keep the fair go alive by abolishing the outdated ... Read More

  5. It's time to put the break on corporate welfare

    Simon Cowan | 23 May 2013 | The Drum

    Corporate welfare for a favoured few - like Australia's car manufacturers - cannot be justified.... Read More

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Ideas@TheCentre

  1. Corporate welfare still milking government cash cows

    Simon Cowan | 14 Jun 2013

    Industry assistance doesn’t achieve the goals it’s supposed to, and should be reduced....

  2. Dumping on free trade

    Stephen Kirchner | 07 Jun 2013

    The government should highlight the benefits of cheaper imports for Australian consumers and the economy, rather than creating ...

  3. Avoiding the carbon tax compensation nightmare

    Andrew Baker | 07 Jun 2013

    Little has been said about the Coalition’s backflip on its promise to abolish the carbon tax compensation package....

  4. What is driving income inequalities?

    Peter Saunders | 31 May 2013

    What is driving wider material inequalities?...

  5. Resurrecting the fossils of arbitration

    Alexander Philipatos | 31 May 2013

    Labor’s proposed amendment to allow arbitration in long-running industrial disputes would reintroduce elements of the ‘bad ...

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